I understand you are new to listia and would love to bid. I am fanning and watching. The only problem is that I have been taken so many times on new people who are not verified at all. You have no verifications and it has taken days and days to get my credits back and I lose other things that I could use them for. No verification makes me afraid of bidding. Hope you get verified and do well. I am fanning you so I can keep an eye on your auctions and hopefully see you verified so I can bid on some. Thanks and good luck

yes, I am new...but I did just verify with a phone number...I didn't know about it until just now, so hope that helps. I have a very good rating on ebay if that helps you in any way...and I conduct estate and moving sales where I live and have a great reputation and I too, do not like being ripped off at my sales.

I hope that helps ease your mind about bidding...quite frankly, I don't get this system yet, but thought it would give me a new avenue to finding 'homes' for all the stuff I have...much of it comes from the sales I do.

you are right, I don't even know what verified means so I can't help you with that, and don't know how you got 'taken'...I don't know what F&W means either. but it if helps you at all I have very good ratings on ebay..look up rdas48. Quite frankly, I don't get this point system, but thought I would give it a try for something different to do with my items. I am in the estate/moving business, I have a great reputation where I live..I have estate and moving sales all the time and I don't like it when someone steals from me....at any rate, I hope this makes you a little more at ease...I have no idea how to get a verification..so I guess I have to trade more items to get that status..thanks for writing.